by Hana Crisp | Feb 9, 2026 | News
By Marita Jacobsson ~ Counsellor, EMDR & Creative Arts Therapist In the spring of 2025, eight courageous women engaged in a 6 session Art Therapy Program, co-facilitated by Masters of Counselling Student Eva Hoevenaar and myself and supported by VANISH Project and...
by Hana Crisp | Feb 9, 2026 | News
In December 2025, two powerful theatre works took the stage at Gasworks Arts Park’s Studio Theatre, developed by adoptee, theatre-maker and researcher Dr Alison Ingram in collaboration with adult adoptees and mothers of loss to adoption. On 15 December, Infans,...
by Hana Crisp | Feb 9, 2026 | News
Last July the UK adoption community held a demonstration in London to demand an apology for forced adoptions. This marked three years since the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended the government issue an apology following its inquiry The Violation of...
by Hana Crisp | Dec 11, 2025 | News
VANISH is delighted to welcome Kerryn Pennell as our new Chair, taking over the role from Todd Dargan, who will remain on the Committee of Management after three years of dedicated service as Chair. Adopted in the late 1960s in South Australia, Kerryn brings three...
by Hana Crisp | Dec 10, 2025 | News
The VANISH office will be closed from 5pm on Tuesday 23 December 2025 and will re-open on Friday 2 January 2026. Some of our team will also be taking a well earned break across December and January, so we’ll be operating with a smaller team than usual. Thank you for...
by Hana Crisp | Dec 4, 2025 | News
VANISH’s specialised adoption-related library is currently going through a remarkable transformation, thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers from Charles Sturt University’s Master of Information Studies program. A sandpit for learning The project began...
